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originally meant a founder or creator, linked to pagan gods like Apollo, and later in the New Testament referred remembrance of the shaping hands of Job 10:8, Isaiah 64:8, and Psalm 119:73, which are hands Lafferty references In the Catholic Mass, this is referred to as the anamnesis .

Menippean informational compression, which is not ornamental but structural: allusions, etymologies, references

refiguration of the reader's world through the act of reading, where the text's configured world, via poetic reference In other words: "the composition of the plot" : This clearly refers to Mimesis 2, the configurational “…the end of the world  in which we lived … still sometimes referred to as ‘Western Civilization’ or They are proto-materials for new construction. 5 Stuck calendar reference Time is distorted but still

Just a few examples: "In the cool of the evening" refers to Genesis 3:8, with Lafferty ironically reminding

History 1 refers to the actual course of past events. History 2 refers to the written account or narrative of those events.

If one finds him blogged about in passing or referred to on Reddit, it is likely a variant of this.

Lop Nur Since Lafferty builds his story on this reference, it may be worth quoting at length. More precisely, anagoge  refers to the mystical ascent of the soul toward higher, divine truth. For reference, the tropes Lafferty plays with in this story are ones any educated humanist would recognize

the history of murder as a fine art, reaching back to Thomas De Quincey, while also making satirical references

Grover edited it into being a psychological artifact with no referent. was is that it still is" with the confidence of someone whose memory cloud has remained close to its referent

Fourth Mansions takes its title from a revered ecstatic, St. Teresa. Throughout the story, this group is referred to by the name John Salt gives them: the Meadow Lark Mountebanks The referent of faith is just not the same as the divine faith that is the gift of God.

his terms, he stipulated what he meant by this, even if in passing he would use the word “novel” when referring This is both like and unlike the slow student who refers to The Odyssey  as a novel.

The 13-Sided Dungeon of Tertullian refers to Tertullian’s theology.